

“On peut pratiquer la religion extérieure pendant tout un siècle sans rien apercevoir de l’ésotérisme, tandis que Omar ibn Fârid s’éleva au faîte de la spiritualité à cause d’un amour violent.”
― Écrits pour la Gnose, comprenant la traduction de l'arabe du Traité de l'unité
― Écrits pour la Gnose, comprenant la traduction de l'arabe du Traité de l'unité
“if a man runs with man is called as "Race" but if a man runs towards God is called as "Grace".”
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“Religion can hardly revive, because it cannot decay. To put the matter bluntly on the lowest level, it is not to anybody’s interest that religion should disappear. If it did, many compositors would be thrown out of work; the audiences of our best-selling scientists would shrink to almost nothing; and the typewriters of the Huxley Brothers would cease from tapping. Without religion the whole human race would die, as according to W. H. R. Rivers, some Melanesian tribes have died, solely of boredom. Every one would be affected: the man who regularly has a run in his car and a round of golf on Sunday, quite as much as the punctilious churchgoer.”
― Selected Essays: 1917-1932
― Selected Essays: 1917-1932

“Your real secret hiding place is not a dark cave, it is not a dusky forest, it is not a desolate house in the middle of nowhere but your real secret hiding place is always your own mind! Every person ultimately hides himself over there, in his own mind!”
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“Every great journey stimulates great faith and great joy.”
― Pearls of Wisdom: Great mind
― Pearls of Wisdom: Great mind
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